Downs v. Downs’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Simmons v. Simmons (1998), Johnson v. Johnson (1992)
34 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Mahoney v. Mahoney · O'Brien v. O'Brien · State v. Recor · 101 Wash. 2d 168 - In Re the Marriage of Washburn · Drapek v. Drapek
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) In an action under this chapter, the court may order either spouse to make maintenance payments, either rehabilitative or permanent in nature, to the other spouse if it finds that the spouse seeking maintenance: (1) lacks sufficient income, property, or both, including property apportioned in accordance with section 751 of this title, to provide for his or her reasonable needs, and (2) is unable to support himself or herself through appropriate employment at the standard of living established during the marriage or is the custodian of a child of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Johnson“shall be ... for such periods of time as the court deems just, after considering all relevant factors,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Justis v. Rist“to allow the trial court leave to revise it if necessary”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Molleur v. Molleur
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.